Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Simply
Speaking Minutes

Colorado
Community Church

08/23/2012

The theme was “Happiness
is….being a Toastmaster!”

The word of the day was
loquacious – talkative, gabby, chatty, garrulous.

With two folk tales
for speeches it was a story book night.Joel Weissman filling in as
Sergeant of Arms we opened with a reminder to turn off our cell phones and the
Pledge of Allegiance.Joel then
introduced us to Toastmaster Dale Jenkel.

Our Inspirator, Leo
Chen told us of an athlete who had lost many games, had been called on to
take the winning shot and missed 26 times, and is a six-time NBA champion named
Michael Jordan.Leo urged us to be like
Mike, get in the game and keep trying because every time we try we get
better.

Sherry Thomas shared her version of Repunzel with Repunzel: The
Remix.Oakley and Agnes lived next store
to an evil witch who grew a plant called Repunzel.Oakley was caught stealing the plant and had
to surrender his daughter to the witch, who locked Repunzel in a tower.Repunzel was eventually saved by a prince who
married her.Of course her hair kept
growing and had to be cut.That led
Repunzel to opening a hair weaving business.Some of her customers included Goldilocks, Cinderella, and Snow White!

Darryle Brown,
our second speaker, gave us a speech titled “Win the Interview, Win the
Job/Promotion.It is a ten part series
in which he answered the question “Why interview?”Now we know the answer and you can learn why and
many other things during this ten –part series.He told us about his years working for the Denver Sheriff’s Department,
getting laid off and landing a new job soon after because of the skills he
learned at Toastmasters.

Marcy Brack, our
third and final speaker for the evening told the story of the Velveteen
Rabbit.The toy rabbit was given to a
small boy who loved the rabbit and told it someday it would be a real
rabbit.He later became very ill and had
to be quarantined.All his toys were put
out by the trash and the Velveteen Rabbit started to cry, he was turning
real.In the spring the boy was
recovered and saw his toy rabbit was real as it played with the other
rabbits.She ended with a great line,
“It doesn’t matter what you look like as long as you are loved”

David Bounds led
the Table Topics with questions related to fairy tales.Participants included guest Joy Davidson with her interview as Red
Riding in the hood.Concetta Palmnieri was another guest with what people will have at
Applebee’s –Mary will have a little lamb and Red will be wolfing down her
food.Guest Rich Burton had to tell the story of the 4th little pig and
Louis Kamga-Ngameni talked about the
ass in the lion’s den.

Diane Nuss was
our General Evaluator for the evening.She introduced the evaluators, as well as evaluating the meeting, which
started on time and moved along very nicely.She also evaluated the evaluators, commenting on their strong points.

Will Osagiede
said in his evaluation of Sherry Thomas that she told it as if she had written
it.He also noted that Sherry has a
knack for telling stories.

Kathy Fortune was
equally enthralled with Darryle’s topic on interviewing.She appreciated the fact that he drew on his
own experiences for his speech.

Pete Hazlet told
Marcy that her speech was great.It was
vivid and people wer drawn to it and it was easy to visualize the boy getting
the rabbit, becoming sick and having to throw out all his toys.Of course it had a happy ending and a great
closing line.

Anne Tacznosky
was our timer for the evening and she did a great job of keeping time.

Joel Weissman was
our Ah counter, catching them all, unfortunately.But that is an opportunity for all to learn,
too.This was Joel’s first time in this
role, too.

Margaret Seyer
filled in as the Grammarian, keeping track of who used the Word of the Day
which was used eight times, not counting the two times after her report.

Quizmaster Dale
Jenkel tested our listening and memory skills for the evening.As Toastmaster he also handed out the awards.

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